Polishing

spring-beans/src/main/java/org/springframework/beans/ConfigurablePropertyAccessor.java

@@ -61,7 +61,7 @@ public interface ConfigurablePropertyAccessor extends PropertyAccessor, Property
 	 * <p>If {@code true}, a {@code null} path location will be populated
 	 * with a default object value and traversed instead of resulting in a
 	 * {@link NullValueInNestedPathException}.
-	 * <p>Default is {@code false} on a plain instance.
+	 * <p>Default is {@code false} on a plain PropertyAccessor instance.
 	 */
 	void setAutoGrowNestedPaths(boolean autoGrowNestedPaths);
 

spring-beans/src/test/java/org/springframework/beans/BeanWrapperAutoGrowingTests.java

@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 /*
- * Copyright 2002-2013 the original author or authors.
+ * Copyright 2002-2014 the original author or authors.
  *
  * Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
  * you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
@@ -31,15 +31,17 @@ import static org.junit.Assert.*;
  */
 public class BeanWrapperAutoGrowingTests {
 
-	Bean bean = new Bean();
+	private final Bean bean = new Bean();
+
+	private final BeanWrapperImpl wrapper = new BeanWrapperImpl(bean);
 
-	BeanWrapperImpl wrapper = new BeanWrapperImpl(bean);
 
 	@Before
 	public void setUp() {
 		wrapper.setAutoGrowNestedPaths(true);
 	}
 
+
 	@Test
 	public void getPropertyValueNullValueInNestedPath() {
 		assertNull(wrapper.getPropertyValue("nested.prop"));
@@ -51,7 +53,7 @@ public class BeanWrapperAutoGrowingTests {
 		assertEquals("test", bean.getNested().getProp());
 	}
 
-	@Test(expected=NullValueInNestedPathException.class)
+	@Test(expected = NullValueInNestedPathException.class)
 	public void getPropertyValueNullValueInNestedPathNoDefaultConstructor() {
 		wrapper.getPropertyValue("nestedNoConstructor.prop");
 	}
@@ -139,7 +141,7 @@ public class BeanWrapperAutoGrowingTests {
 		assertThat(bean.getMultiList().get(0).get(0), instanceOf(Bean.class));
 	}
 
-	@Test(expected=InvalidPropertyException.class)
+	@Test(expected = InvalidPropertyException.class)
 	public void getPropertyValueAutoGrowListNotParameterized() {
 		wrapper.getPropertyValue("listNotParameterized[0]");
 	}

spring-core/src/main/java/org/springframework/core/convert/TypeDescriptor.java

@@ -141,7 +141,7 @@ public class TypeDescriptor implements Serializable {
 	 * <p>Returns primitive types as-is.
 	 * <p>See {@link #getObjectType()} for a variation of this operation that
 	 * resolves primitive types to their corresponding Object types if necessary.
-	 * @return the type, or {@code null}
+	 * @return the type, or {@code null} if it cannot be determined
 	 * @see #getObjectType()
 	 */
 	public Class<?> getType() {